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AI tender review

Your tender, read through
before it is submitted.

AI tender review in Unibuild reviews a submission before it goes. Missing forms, part-answered questions and a price that disagrees with the method are flagged while there is still time to fix them.

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What the review catches

Eleven ways a tender loses marks. Caught before submission.

Your team writes and prices the tender. The review reads all of it before it goes, so marks are not lost on detail.

11Ways to lose marks, caught before submission
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Caught

A mandatory form or document left out of the tender

What goes wrong

The instructions to tenderers list what must come back: the form of tender, declarations, pricing schedules and certificates. One missing item can make a submission non-compliant before anybody reads a quality answer.

It is the most expensive mistake in tendering, because every hour behind the submission is wasted.

How the review catches it

The submission is reviewed before it is sent, and a missing form or document is flagged for whoever leads the tender.

The gap shows while there is still time to fill it.

  • Reviewed before it is sent
  • Gaps flagged before the deadline
  • Nothing lost on a technicality

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Caught

A quality question only half answered

What goes wrong

Quality questions often ask three or four things at once. Answers tend to cover the first two well and the rest in a line, or not at all.

Evaluators score against what was asked. A part left unanswered scores nothing, however good the rest of the answer is.

How the review catches it

Each answer is reviewed before submission, and a part of the question left unanswered is flagged.

  • Every part of every question
  • Scored against what was asked
  • No easy marks dropped

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Caught

Tender answers that run over the word limit

What goes wrong

Buyers set word and page limits, and text beyond the limit is commonly disregarded. The commitment in the final paragraph is never scored.

Limits are easy to lose track of when four people write one submission.

How the review catches it

An answer that runs over its limit is flagged before submission.

The editing happens before submission, by the people who know which sentences matter.

  • Limits kept
  • Edited by you, not by the evaluator
  • Key points kept inside the count

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Caught

A qualification that makes the tender non-compliant

What goes wrong

Qualifying a tender protects the price. Qualify the wrong thing, such as the payment terms or a mandatory requirement, and the buyer may treat the whole tender as non-compliant.

Qualifications are often added late, long after the instructions were last read.

How the review catches it

Qualifications and exclusions that touch terms the buyer has said are fixed are flagged in the review.

Whoever leads the tender can then price the risk instead of qualifying it away.

  • Fixed terms left alone
  • Risk priced, not qualified away
  • Compliance kept intact

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Caught

A tender price that disagrees with its own method

What goes wrong

The method statement describes a night shift and a dedicated supervisor, and the price allows for neither. Or the programme shows twelve weeks and the preliminaries cover eight.

Evaluators notice when the written answers and the price disagree, and so does the client’s quantity surveyor.

How the review catches it

The tender is priced in Unibuild, beside the written submission. Where the written answers and the price disagree, the review flags it.

  • Price and method in agreement
  • Programme matched to preliminaries
  • One account of the job throughout

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Caught

A generic RAMS in the tender pack

What goes wrong

Main contractors and public buyers ask for sample RAMS and method statements. A document copied from another job, with another site’s details, tells them how the work will actually be managed.

Health and safety is usually among the first things a buyer assesses.

How the review catches it

The same AI review reads RAMS, method statements and risk assessments. AI RAMS review flags vague controls and details carried over from another site before the document goes into the pack.

  • Specific to this job
  • Vague controls flagged
  • Ready for the tender pack

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Caught

An expired insurance or accreditation certificate in the tender

What goes wrong

Insurance certificates, accreditations and competence cards all carry expiry dates. One out of date in a tender pack suggests the rest of the paperwork is too.

Buyers check the dates, because an expired policy is no cover at all.

How the review catches it

Unibuild keeps insurances, accreditations and cards in expiry registers, with reminders before they lapse.

The review flags any certificate in the submission that is out of date or close to it.

  • Dates checked before submission
  • Renewals flagged early
  • Current evidence in every pack

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Caught

Social value answers that promise nothing measurable

What goes wrong

Central government buyers give social value at least 10% of the total score. An answer that promises to “support the local community” scores poorly against a model that asks for specific outcomes.

Whatever is promised is monitored through the contract, typically as a key performance indicator.

How the review catches it

Social value answers are reviewed with the rest of the submission, and a promise with nothing measurable behind it is flagged.

Whoever leads the tender turns it into a commitment with a number, an owner and a date.

  • Measurable commitments
  • An owner and a date for each
  • Promises the firm can keep

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Caught

Another client’s name left in a reused answer

What goes wrong

Good answers get reused, and they should be. The risk is the paragraph that still names the last client, the last site or a project manager who left in the spring.

An evaluator reads it as a tender that was not written for them.

How the review catches it

Names, references, dates and project details carried over from another tender are flagged in the review.

  • Reuse without the leftovers
  • The right client throughout
  • Written for this buyer

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Caught

A clarification response the submission ignores

What goes wrong

Buyers answer clarification questions during the tender period, and the answers can change what is required. A submission written before the last clarification can answer the wrong question.

Clarifications usually arrive by email to one person, which is how they get missed.

How the review catches it

Clarification responses are attached to the enquiry in Unibuild with the rest of the tender documents.

An answer that a later clarification has overtaken is flagged before submission.

  • Every clarification accounted for
  • The current requirement answered
  • Nothing lost in one inbox

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Caught

Tender claims with no evidence behind them

What goes wrong

“We have an excellent safety record.” “We always finish on time.” Evaluators are asked to score evidence rather than assertion.

A claim with no figure, reference or document behind it scores as a claim.

How the review catches it

The review flags statements that ask to be believed without evidence.

Whoever leads the tender adds the record, the reference or the certificate that proves them.

  • Evidence where it counts
  • Figures, not adjectives
  • Scored as proof

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In plain terms

AI tender review is a final read of a tender submission, done before it is submitted. Its job is to make sure nothing the buyer asked for is missing and every question is fully answered. The price, the programme and the written method should tell the same story.

In Unibuild the tender is logged as an enquiry with its documents attached and priced in Advanced Estimating. The submission is reviewed, and a named person approves it before it goes. A won tender becomes the project, carrying the same reference.

Where tenders are decided

AI tender review at each stage a tender is assessed.

A tender is judged several times before anybody compares prices. Each stage has its own way of losing marks.

Pre-qualification

Before a tender is invited, the buyer checks the firm: insurances, accreditations, health and safety and finances. Build UK’s Common Assessment Standard is the pre-qualification question set many main contractors and clients now use. Getting on an approved list covers the paperwork.

The compliance check

Submissions are first checked for completeness: every form, declaration and document the instructions require. A missing item can end a tender before the quality answers are read.

Quality scoring

Evaluators score each answer against published criteria. Answers that cover every part of the question, inside the limit, with evidence behind them, score highest.

Price against quality

Under the Procurement Act 2023, in force since 24 February 2025, a competitively tendered public contract goes to the most advantageous tender. That is judged against the award criteria in the tender documents, which usually weigh quality as well as price.

Social value

For procurements under the Act started from 1 October 2025, central government buyers within PPN 002 weight social value at no less than 10% of the total score. From 1 January 2027, PPN 026 applies to contracts of £1 million or more, with a minimum of 20% from £5 million.

The private tender

Main contractors run their own process, and they look for the same things: a complete return, a clear scope, stated qualifications and a method that matches the price. Public sector tendering sets out how the two differ.

One set of records

From enquiry to award, on the same record.

The review reads the tender where it was written and priced. Nothing is exported, attached or sent to a separate tool.

Logged

The enquiry is logged with its tender documents attached and its own reference, so nothing depends on one inbox.

Priced

In Advanced Estimating, from your own dated library of rates.

Written

Method statements and RAMS are written in Unibuild from your own templates, and reviewed by the same AI.

Reviewed

The submission is reviewed by the AI before it is sent. Anything it flags goes back to whoever leads the tender.

Approved

A named person approves the submission. Nothing is submitted automatically.

Won

The enquiry becomes the project with the same reference, and the win rate is reported by client and by type of work. Quotations and tenders covers the full record.

The review reads the tender beside the work behind it.

A separate checking tool sees one file at a time. Unibuild reviews the submission next to the estimate that priced it, the RAMS that support it and the documents the buyer sent.
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How the AI is charged

AI charged at cost.
Your choice of model.

The cost of AI is bespoke to each firm. You pay only for what you use, and we set it out in the demo.

Everyday AI, included
The AI that runs through the platform day to day is part of the monthly fee, like every other module.
Heavier AI, at cost
High-value AI work is paid as you use it, at the AI provider’s own rate. Unibuild adds nothing on top.
Your choice of model
You choose which AI model does the work, and you can change your mind later.
Your own AI account
If your firm already pays for an AI service, connect it. The provider bills you directly.

How model choice and your own AI account work

Questions

Asked by whoever
owns the deadline.

Can AI check a tender against the instructions to tenderers?
Yes. The instructions, the specification and any clarification responses stay attached to the enquiry in Unibuild. The AI reviews the submission before it is sent, and flags gaps and inconsistencies for whoever leads the tender, while the deadline still leaves time to act.
Who signs off a tender before it is submitted?
A named person in your firm. Nothing is submitted automatically, and the approval is recorded with the person and the date. The AI flags, and whoever leads the tender decides what changes.
Is the price inside the tender checked too?
Yes. The tender is priced in Unibuild beside the written submission, and where the written answers and the price disagree, the review flags it. The estimate and the quotation behind a tender are read back before they are issued, which AI estimate review covers.
Will it pick up a RAMS copied from another job?
Yes. RAMS, method statements and risk assessments are reviewed by the same AI, and details carried over from another site are flagged. AI RAMS review covers the safety documents in full, and AI document review sets out every document type.
Can it check our social value answers?
Yes. They are reviewed with the rest of the submission before it is sent. A strong answer commits to a number, an owner and a date, because whatever is promised is monitored through the contract.
Does it work for public sector tenders under the Procurement Act 2023?
Yes. A public tender is assessed against the buyer’s own instructions and award criteria, and the review is there to make sure the submission answers them in full. Private tenders for main contractors are reviewed in the same way.
Can several people work on one tender?
Yes, and at no extra cost, because users are unlimited. The estimator, the contracts manager and whoever writes the method statements all work on the same record, each with the access you grant them.
Do we have to send the tender documents somewhere else to be checked?
No. They are attached to the enquiry in Unibuild, and the review reads them there. Nothing is exported to a separate checking tool.
Can the review follow our own tender process?
Yes. Unibuild is bespoke business software for UK trades and specialist contractors: a platform in daily production since 2016, shaped to the way each firm already works. Your approval route, your standard answers and your checks are built in, and changes after go-live are inside the monthly fee.
Do buyers ask how RAMS reach the operatives?
Often, in the health and safety questions. In Unibuild, operatives read and sign RAMS on the phone, in your firm’s own app. Your staff app is published on the App Store and Google Play under your company’s own name and icon. Your operatives download your app, not ours. The RAMS app shows how signing works.
Does Unibuild report our tender win rate?
Yes, by client and by type of work. Every enquiry ends as outstanding, successful or unsuccessful, and a loss carries a reason, which shows which work to keep chasing.
How do you check a tender submission before it goes?
Tick off every document the instructions require, then read each answer against every part of its question and its word limit. Check the price, programme and method against each other, confirm every certificate is in date, and remove names left from other tenders. Unibuild’s AI reviews every submission before it goes.
How is AI tender review charged?
Everyday AI is in the monthly fee. Heavier AI work is paid as used, at the AI provider’s own rate, with nothing added. You choose which AI model does the work. How AI is charged.
Can we try it before we commit?
Yes. Start with a 30-minute demo, then take the 14-day trial of the full platform, with every module on and no card. Most firms go live in about two weeks, in phases.
Sources

The rules behind the checks.

The product information on this page is published by Unibuild Technologies Limited. The procurement references below were checked on .

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One level down

The review reads the tender.
Winning it starts earlier.

Approved lists, public buyers, accreditations and the price that sits underneath the written answers.

Bidding for public sector work for the first timeWhat a public buyer asks for, and the paperwork that has to exist before you can tender. Winning work Getting on a main contractor's approved listHow main contractors build their lists, and what gets a firm onto one. Winning work SSIP, CHAS, Constructionline and what replaced PAS 91The accreditations a main contractor asks for, and what each one assesses. Winning work Preliminaries, the cost most firms forget to priceThe most under-priced part of a tender, built from the programme rather than guessed at. Commercial How to price a construction job without guessingMeasuring, building a rate from first principles, recovering overhead and setting margin as a decision. Commercial RAMS that hold upWhat makes a RAMS specific enough to survive a buyer’s health and safety review. Health and safety
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